Car-coupling



(No Model.) I

J. W. WILKS & G. WHITUS.

GAR COUPLING.

No. 483,194. Patented Sept. 27, 1892.

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JOHN W. WILKS, OF NILKSBURG, AND CHARLES WHITUS, OF CHESTER, SOUTHCAROLINA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,194, datedSeptember 27, 1892.

Application filed January 13, 1892. Serial No. 417,969. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN IV. VVILKS, residing at Wilksburg, and CHARLESWHITUs, residing at Chester, in the county of Chester and State of SouthCarolina, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Car-Couplers; and we do declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Our invention has relation to pin-seats in car-couplers; and it consistsin the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafterfully set out in this specification and the claims hereto attached.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewof a car with our invention attached. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of ourpin-seat. Fig. 3 is a front end View, and Fig. 4 is a rear end View, ofthe same.

Our bulk-head A is constructed similar to the ordinary link-and-pinbulk-head, but having a throat or and a large enough and deep enough toallow the head 13 and tail 1) of the pin-seat to move back and forththerein. In the rear end of the throat a and through the under side ofthe bulk-head is a slot a To the rear end of the tail b of the pin-seatis pivoted an arm I), which drops through said slot and to the lower endof which is secured a chain 29*, which passes through an eye secured tothe under part of the car sufficiently near its side to be reachedwithout going in between the cars. There are two of these chains andeyes, the others being on the 0pposite side of the car. The head of thepinseat is provided with an upper recess 0 and lower recess 0', leavinga nose (1, (see Fig. 3,) having depressions d and (P, which slightlydeepen and enlarge at their outer ends. In the upper part of the head Bis a longitudinal perforation 6, through which is inserted a headed pin6, just long enough that when pushed forward its front end will be flushwith the front end of the nose d. In the rear of said perforation is cutan opening 6 in said head to allow said pin to move back and forth. Tothe end that the said pin-rest may not be too heavy and yet sufficientlystrong its front end only is solid, the part immediately in rear of thehead having an upper plate f and a lower plate f, (see Fig. 4,)supported by a vertical plate f said lower plate terminating in a tailb. Recess o is to receive the link when coupling from the bottom.

Our invention is operated as follows: When we desire to set the pin forthe automatic coupling of the cars, we take hold of the chain 1) anddraw the pin-seat forward under the pinhole. The stopping of the saidseat throws the pin 6' forward, also under the pin-hole; but in case itshould not be thrown out sufficiently far we give the nose of the head alittl tap, which causes the pin to move sufficiently forward. Then thecoupling-pin Gis placed in position, its lower end resting on the pin(2, as shown in Fig. 1. When the approaching car thrusts its link intothe mouth of the bulk-head, it strikes the nose of the pinseat anddrives the same and the pin 6 back from under the pin G, which fallsimmediately through the said link.

The oifice of the pin 6 is to prevent the link from striking the lowerend of the couplingpin and bouncing it up out of the couplinghole, as issometimes done when the plain seat is solid.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a car-coupler, substantially as shown and described, thecombination of the bulkhead A, provided with a throat a a, pin-seat B,its head provided with the upper recess 0 and lower recess 0,perforation e, headed pin e, working in said perforation, and opening 6to allow the said pin to work back and forth, said pin rest beingprovided with proper means to operate the same, substantially as shownand described.

2. In a car-coupler, substantially as shown and described, thecombination of the bulkhead A, provided with a throat a and a, pinseatB, its head provided with the upper re cess c, perforation e, headed pine, working in sand perforation, and opening e to allow the sand pin towork back and forth, said pinrest being provided with proper means tooperate the same, substantilally as shown and described,rand for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

JOHN W. WILKS. CHARLES WHITUS. Witnesses:

J. S. WILsoN, J NO. F. DOUGLAS.

